The much anticipated magazine publisher consortium, which officially announced its intention to launch some sort of e-reader format earlier this month, now has a name.
Folio reports that the partnership between Condé Nast, Hearst, Meredith, News Corp. and Time Inc., [...]
For the second day in a row, Mayor Bloomberg is headed to the West Side for a late morning press conference. And, once again, the mayor will be hailing progress on a development project by the Related Companies, the active real estate firm that was last week denied [...]
Much has been made of the city council's recent triple override of Mayor Bloomberg: They've answered his vetoes with second votes overruling him on the Kingsbridge Armory mall, the five-minute par...
Continue reading "Council Approves Broadway Triangle Rezoning" > ' [...]
Yesterday a five-alarm blaze that damaged a strip of stores in the Norwood section of the Bronx has residents and business owners—not to mention fire department officials— suspicious. The fire, on East 204th Street near Bainbridge Avenue, is the second in two months for [...]
Anybody can lose a football game, anyone can lose a football game by three points, and anyone can lose a football game by a field goal under bad conditions — even when they're playing at...
Continue reading "Jockbeat: The Jets Go Down in Flames" > ' [...]BayNewser: Google's real time results were put to the test with the death of actress Brittany Murphy yesterday. But they didn't fare so well.
FishbowlDC: For the first time ever, PBS has implemented a ratings system to track who is watching its shows.
PRNewser: Kim Kardashian
I just watched this for the first time. Nobody can explain things quite the way Keith can, so I am posting parts 1 & 2 because this is an 11min video and every second is worth watching. He explains everything that I’ve been trying to say. I especially like [...]
The weather outside was frightful, but the grosses for Avatar were delightful. Despite losing anywhere from 18 percent (New York) to 86 percent (Baltimore) of its audience on Saturday thanks to the eastern corridor blizzard, James Cameron's technical marvel is still estimated to have the second highest December [...]
You've already seen photos of last night's blizzard and read news accounts about the snowstorm — but now you can watch it in time-lapse photography! This neat video from controlgeek shows snow accumulating in Brooklyn with a single image every thirty seconds from yesterday afternoon through this' [...]
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Cops caught an 18-year-old suspected of getting it on with horses at the Goshen Historic Track in Orange County. After a six-month sting, investigators used surveillance footage to nab Erick Rivera, who was hit with multiple charges for sexual misconduct with an animal and burglary [...]
Manhattan CB4's transportation committee passed a resolution last night in favor of speedier transit and improved pedestrian conditions on 34th Street. The vote followed a brief presentation from NYCDOT outlining several options for a second phase of transit enhancements on the crosstown corridor. It's still very early in the [...]
According to Dealbreaker, outgoing Morgan Stanley CEO John Mack told employees he's not taking a bonus this year "citing market conditions and the extraordinary assistance the government lent to the banking industry... Mr. Mack has now foregone a bonuses for three years in a" [...]
While our state senators tripped over their own dicks and lost the gay marriage bill, DC has been a churning gay-marriage-sanctifying machine. They got the second read of their marriage equality b...
Continue reading "D.C. Mayor Signs Gay Marriage Bill; Congress Next" >We reported on channel 8’s Evan Axelbank’s story on the Senate Democrats tax payer funded campaign outreach office on Wednesday.
There was a second part of the report– sorry no video link. Mayor Duffy’s staff and County Executive Brooks tell Axelbank that they’ve had no contact with anyone from [...]
Earlier this year the Board of Health began weighing a plan to require restaurants to prominently display a letter grade of A, B or C, depending on the sanitary conditions. (Those restaurants receiving Bs and Cs would be inspected more often than those inspectors'' [...]
Will NYPD cruisers and other bus lane blockers steer clear of the next transit improvement on 34th Street? Photo: Chris O'Leary.
State Inspector General Joseph Fisch found that Forensic Scientist Garry Veeder routinely gave trace-evidence results without actually performing the tests. The cost to law enforcement around the state will be steep:
This misconduct prompted an examination of Veeder’s 322 cases by outside forensic scientists which revealed a 29% deficiency rate. As [...]
[Ms. I is a second-year teacher in a high school in Brooklyn.]
As tends to be the case in major life events, my high school teaching career began when I least expected. Midway through the school year, I was welcomed into a wonderful school community. I shed tears of joy. For [...]
A Windsor Terrace grocery store manager came under fire from customers for installing and promptly removing a menorah and a Christmas tree he had placed in front of his store. For the second year in a row, Key Food manager Mike Jordings allowed Rabbi Moshe [...]
Islanders 2, Rangers 1: They didn't get shut out, but the Rangers deserved to. They played the entire game as if they were short-handed and didn't score a goal until 55 seconds remained in the third period. Jon Sim and Blake Comeau had the [...]
State Assembly member Micah Kellner, City Council members Melissa Mark-Viverito and Dan Garodnick, Council member-elect Margaret Chin, and State Senator Bill Perkins are among 19 local electeds calling on DOT and the MTA to implement "true BRT" and "complete streets" on First and Second [...]
